424 research outputs found
Captatio Benevolentiae: Potential Risks and Benefits of Flattering the Audience in a Public Political Speech
Given that flattery is a form of impression management and a persuasive tool in
interpersonal communication, two experiments investigated the effect of a (fictitious)
political candidate praising the audience during a meeting. The flattery was addressed
to the social category to which participants belong (direct flattery condition) or
to another social category (observed flattery condition). The flattering message
(vs. control condition) employed in the context of a public speech induced a more
positive candidate evaluation on both the members of the flattered audience and
the observers. The effect was not mediated by degree of message scrutiny, nor
by suspicion of source ulterior motives, and it was not moderated by the level of
identification with the audience. This suggests that the compliment to the audience
leads the members of the flattered category to reciprocate liking and the observers
to transfer the source\u2019s attitude recursively (TAR effect). Theoretical and practical
implications are discussed
The gender-based stereotype about food is on the table. Food choice also depends on co-eater's gender
Previous research has shown that different foods are stereotypically associated with gender and that eating in a role-congruent way fulfills an impression management function. On the other hand, other studies revealed that adapting one's food consumption to that of the co-eaters is a means to gain social approval as well. In the present study, we bridge these two distinct lines of research by studying what happens when the two norms (conforming to the gender-based stereotype and imitating the co-eater) conflict, that is with opposite-sex co-eaters. Results indicated that the tendency to match the co-eaters' supposed consumption generally appeared over and above one's gender-congruent choice. In addition, as expected, gender differences also emerged: while men were always willing to adapt to the co-eaters, women's intention to eat the feminine food was independent from the co-eaters' gender
Ingredients of gender-based stereotypes about food : Indirect influence of food type, portion size and presentation on gendered intentions to eat
The association between certain foods and masculinity or femininity has been widely discussed in different disciplines. However, extant research has yet to clarify which are the critical dimensions lending this gender connotations to food and thus impacting on the willingness to eat it.
We present a study on the role of food type, portion size, and dish presentation as potential factors constituting the gender-based stereotype about food, and their indirect or mediated effect on the intention of men and women to eat certain feminine/masculine stereotyped foods. We manipulated the three features cited above in a 2 (food type: Caprese vs. hamburger) x 2 (portion size: small vs. big) x 2 (presentation: elegant vs. rough) full factorial design.
Results confirmed a model of moderated mediation: the Caprese salad, the small portion and the elegantly presented dish (in respect to the hamburger, the big portion and the roughly presented dish) tend to be considered \u201cfeminine food\u201d, and thus women expressed a more pronounced intention to eat it than men.
The implications of the \ufb01ndings for both theory and practice are discussed
Political ideology moderates the relationship between outgroup size and prejudice toward immigrants: A longitudinal, multilevel study
When a Politician Disappoints: The Role of Gender Stereotypical Expectations in Post-Scandal Judgment
This study examines how evaluations of male and female politicians are worsened by corruption scandals that disappoint expectations of honesty. Participants evaluated a fictitious politician before and after watching a video about a corruption scandal involving that politician. The manipulated variables were the politician’s sex and whether they shared participants’ political affiliations. Results showed that a female politician affiliated with the participants’ preferred party was the most damaged by the scandal because she had the highest expectations of honesty placed upon her
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The Social Utility of Ambivalence: Being Ambivalent on Controversial Issues Is Recognized as Competence.
Research on attitudinal ambivalence is flourishing, but no research has studied how others perceive its expression. We tested the hypothesis that the expression of attitudinal ambivalence could be positively valued if it signals careful consideration of an issue. More specifically, ambivalence should be judged higher on social utility (competence) but not on social desirability (warmth), compared to clear-cut attitudes. This should be the case for controversial (vs. consensual) issues, where ambivalence can signal some competence. The participants in four experiments indeed evaluated ambivalence higher on a measure of social utility, compared to clear-cut (pro-normative and counter-normative) attitudes, when the attitude objects were controversial; they judged pro-normative attitudes higher for both social utility and social desirability when the attitude objects were consensual. Attitudinal ambivalence can therefore be positively valued, as it is perceived as competence when the expression of criticism is socially accepted
Stepping into the Interactive Drama
Interactive Drama is the ultimate challenge of digital entertainment. In this paper, from our seven year experience in Interactive Drama, we try to shape the history of the field and envision what will be (or should be) the future of this history. Two main directions in particular are stressed, because we feel that the success of Interactive Drama lies in these two directions. The first one concerns the architecture of systems and how it would manage both narrative constraints and character's intelligence, believability and roundness. The second one focuses on project management by sketching a methodology of co-design fo
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